SBS Nagar DC deputes 44 sector officers for polling arrangements

Nawanshahr, February 15, 2022: Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal on Tuesday said that the administration has appointed 44 sector officers to keep close vigil on minute-to-minute election activities on polling day (February 20) and a day before polling by empowering them with magistrial powers.

Presiding over a meeting with all returning officers and sector Officers, Sarangal said that sector officers play an important role in ensuring transparent and smooth elections and each sector officer has been given charge of 12-14 polling booths.

He said that these sector officers would have magistrate powers to conduct inspection of election activities in their booths.
 
Further, he said that sector officers have been given training about working of Punjab Poll Day Monitoring App (PPDMA) which have been  installed in the mobile phones of the sector officers on the polling day.

He said that these sector officers would share the details of dispatch and arrival of poling parties at polling booths, set up of polling station, starting of the mock poll, EVM and VVPAT cleared, polling started or delayed, halted and resumed, the number of votes polled after every two hours, the number of persons standing in a queue after 6 pm, departure and arrival of polling parties at the collection centers and depositing EVMs.

Sarangal told that district administration is duty-bound to ensure smooth and hassle free polling process in the district.

He said that elaborate arrangements have been put at place at every polling booths by the administration and added that no stone would be left unturned for ensuring  free and fair elections.

Prominent among present on the occasion included ADC (G) Jasbir Singh, SDMs Navneet Kaur Bal, Dr Baljinder Singh Dhillon, Deepak Rohella and others.